Yesterday, I spent the morning sleeping and doing violin practice. I practiced on the 11k disciple violin. It sounds really nice but the neck is wider than the China one, so it's a bit harder to reach around, but still manageable. Till this morning, I still don't know which violin to choose. Though the violins differ in price by nearly 2 times, my parents say they will just get anything that is worth the value. And that makes my decision even more difficult because both have equal advantages and disadvantages.

China:
- Sounds alright
- Neck is less wide, easier to reach notes
- If I don't play the 11k before it, it sounds quite nice
- Set up by Sabo

Vs. (ck - table tennis)

Singapore:
- Sounds super nice
- Neck is wide but still manageable
- Good response
- Set up by Sabo's assistant, so I dunno if it's trustworthy

While practicing these few days, I find myself sympathizing with my neighbors more. After living in this home for about 4.5 years, no one has ever complained about the noise they receive for about 1 hour a day. And no one has ever rang our doorbell to ask us to practice at a certain time only. But the thing is, the house above mine has had new owners about 3 times already. For the first owner, I may be able to understand. The kids were all learning the same piece and so there was continuous Fur Elise throughout my living hours. Jean and I got fed up and decided to open our windows in our rooms and do violin practice. But then ours only lasts an hour. After that, we switch on the keyboard to the max volume and blast out Fur Elise Demo version until we can't stand the noise anymore. We stopped our nonsense after a while and they stopped too.

Went out for lunch with parents. Jean was out with some friends. Then they dropped me off at J8 for theory lesson with another jie ying. Jean came too. Learnt about modulations. It's quite tiring doing all that theory stuff. But then she's super funny. Jean started singing the stuff for the rehearsal when we were walking out and then I asked her to keep quiet but of course it never works. The suddenly jie ying said, "bu yao xia ren" (don't scare other people). I couldn't stop laughing for about 2 whole minutes. In the meantime, mom and dad were waiting so they went to ya kun kaya shop and drank tea. They complained they couldn't sleep last night.

Then after that, mom and dad picked us up to go to church for rehearsal. Actually it only starts at 7.30pm but Chimes decided to go earlier to practice. We reached church at around 5.30pm. While turning in, we saw a fire truck in front of us. It turned in and stopped opposite our church. There was this HDB block and a house on the second floor had smoke coming out. The firemen got off the truck in a hurry and rushed over. The owner wasn't at home so they had to climb up from a ladder to go into the kitchen. The fire was extinguished and the owner came back to look at the mess. The rest of us sat in front of church and watched. We have the best view actually. It was quite interesting. Seldom see firemen in action.

Rehearsal went quite alright. Xiu lan ls came to conduct. It was very hot inside the hall. We didn't use aircon so there was only natural wind or fans which we all stood under whenever we came offstage. Chimes went quite alright too, quite together, at least better than previous rehearsals. The only thing was that we were lacking manpower cus some were away. I think everything is more or less in one piece, ready to go for sat. Jerome was very funny today. He kept trying to pull up his pants cus they were to loose for him. So some of his actions were affected and the rest of us watching were busy laughing at the poor guy. At least we have all already passed the age when we were one of those little children singing and dancing on stage. And come to think of it, chimes is an ageing population. We started when we were around P1-P4 and we are more or less the same people sec2-around 1st year jc/poly age.

Ended up reaching home at 11.30pm cus there were 2 run throughs. I was so thirsty I gulped down the whole bottle of water yuxin's dad gave me in one shot. All I needed next was a shower, a fan and some sleep.

Violin lesson later. Hijacking jy's house tmr.